Theatre preview: Widowers' Houses, Manchester

Friday 10 April 2009 19.01 EDT
First published on Friday 10 April 2009 19.01 EDT

Principles are easy to hold until they start affecting your own way of life. So it proves for Harry Trench in George Bernard Shaw's fiscal satire, when the young doctor discovers that the wealth of his fiancee's self-made father, Mr Sartorious, is founded on the exploitation of the poor and homeless, and further finds out that his own income is dirty money. Roger Lloyd Pack stars as the slum landlord, Sartorious, in a revival directed by Greg Hersov.